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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] zfcp: fix reaction on bit error theshold notification with adapter close
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:47:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1pnjds2m1.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0a921a4-f529-03cd-b39c-24c5f25f8b44@linux.ibm.com> (Steffen Maier's message of "Wed, 2 Oct 2019 10:31:01 +0200")


Steffen,

>> Why not just shut FCP down unconditionally on excessive bit errors?
>> What's the benefit of allowing things to continue? Are you hoping things
>> will eventually recover in a single-path scenario?
>
> Experience told me that there will be an unforeseen end user scenario
> where I need a quick switch to let even shaky paths survive.

Can't say I like it. But it's your driver.

Applied to 5.4/scsi-fixes. Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-04  1:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-24 16:06 [PATCH] zfcp: fix reaction on bit error theshold notification with adapter close Steffen Maier
     [not found] ` <20190925224305.00183208C3@mail.kernel.org>
2019-09-26 11:00   ` Steffen Maier
2019-10-01  3:49 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-10-01 10:49   ` [PATCH v2] " Steffen Maier
2019-10-01 14:14     ` Greg KH
2019-10-01 15:07       ` Steffen Maier
2019-10-01 15:42         ` Greg KH
2019-10-01 18:26           ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-10-02  8:31             ` Steffen Maier
2019-10-04  1:47               ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]

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